Libby's not the only Bush Administration scandal that may land folks in the clink.
Today:
Rep. Maurice Hinchey "Investigate Cheney Now!"
Christy Harvey from CAP
Paul Kiel on the huge breaking scandal surrounding US Attorneys Massacre
Christy Hardin Smith from Firedoglake- the home of the Plameologists
David Sirota!
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turn back from your wicked ways!
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Turn back your wicket ways!
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Fight for peace, equality, democracy and socialism
The Nature, Role, and Work of the Communist Party
by Sam Webb, National Chair, 02/26/2007 18:10
"...Now don’t get me wrong – I am not suggesting that we abandon Marxist principles and methodology, but Marxism can only claim a scientific character if it takes into account new realities, if it absorbs new experience, if it is open-ended to new analytical insights by Marxists and non-Marxists alike."
More On "The Nature, Role, and Work of the Communist Party" at
http://www.cpusa.org/
^
And REMEMBER!
There is nothing wrong with being a member of the communist party or believing in some of what they stand for as I proudly do.
It is not really what anyone wants you to do. But if you want a radio network you must make it work. It is the marketplace.
You can still be a liberal crackpot without a radio network. You just can't have the network if you can't cut it with the big boys.
Nothing wrong with being a tiny fish.
There have always been the misguided and the misfits, they just don't have radio networks.
Speaking of "crackpots", "misguided" & "misfits"...
How ya doing Nobody?
Domenici hires Duke Cunningham’s lawyer. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) has “hired a top defense attorney to handle the pending ethics investigation into allegations that he pressured a federal prosecutor to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats on the eve of the 2006 elections.” His choice: “Lee Blalack, who recently represented former congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham (R-CA), who is now serving time in prison for bribery and other offenses,” and who was prosecuted by purged U.S. Attorney Carol Lam.
LINK
Looks like Nobody is back to his usual hateful manic/depressive paranoid self.
Whatever became of the badly needed counseling you said you were going to get?
The new Sam Seder blog is progressing and should be unveiled in 2008.
Senate to Vote on Subpoenas for DoJ Officials
By Paul Kiel - March 7, 2007, 5:45 PM
The prosecutor purge story continues to move forward.
When the Senate Judiciary Committee meets tomorrow, they will vote on whether to issue subpoenas to several Justice Department officials.
Those officials are: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty's chief of staff Mike Elston, Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff Kyle Sampson, acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer, outgoing Director of the Executive Office of the United States Attorney Michael Battle, and the Justice Department's White House liaison, Monica Goodling.
In a statement Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said, “Now that it’s clear that there was a concerted effort to purge an impressive crop of U.S. Attorneys, the next step is to identify and question those responsible for hatching this scheme to use U.S. Attorneys as pawns in a political chess game.”
Update: To be clear, the committee will first be requesting the officials' voluntary testimony. The vote is to authorize subpoenas if they don't accept.
Update: So let's go through the list and why the committee wants to hear from them.
-- Mike Elston, we know, made the now infamous not-at-all-threatening phone call to former USA Bud Cummins.
-- Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff Kyle Sampson and the Justice Department's White House liaison Monica Goodling were involved in generating the list of prosecutors to fire.
-- Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer told two of the fired prosecutors that they were being replaced in order to free up the spot for someone else.
-- And Michael Battle, who will be stepping down at the end of next week, actually made the calls firing the prosecutors.
LINK
not sam said...
The new Sam Seder blog is progressing and should be unveiled in 2008.
March 7, 2007 3:59 PM
HaHaHaHaHa!
I'll believe it when I see it.
I have the feeling we will see a new badly needed Sam Seder blog that really functions maybe about the time we get a badly needed new president.
not sam said...
The new Sam Seder blog is progressing and should be unveiled in 2008.
March 7, 2007 3:59 PM
Damn you Sam and all your broken promises!
Now you know why I have given up on you.
I'm out.
It's not Nobody, just a troll thinking his being smug.
Nobody hasn't posted here or at the old blog for awhile.
So quit your acts.
And just because I know you don't like it...I'm going to cut and paste some more.
Super bug kills dozens in hospitals across country
Virulent stain of bacteria believed to be cause of death of 120-200 patients in hospitals. Experts explain most of those infected were already suffering from prior medical conditions. Health ministry says outbreak was kept secret to avoid mass panic
Meital Yasur-Beit Or Published: 03.07.07, 09:53 / Israel News
A deadly bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae is believed to have killed some 120-200 patients in hospitals across the country.
"Between 400 to 500 people have been infected by the bug, and 30 to 40 percent of them have already died. However, it is important to note that most of them were in a serious condition, and some were suffering from prior medical conditions," said Prof. Yehuda Carmeli, the head of the epidemiology unit at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
According to Carmeli, most of those infected have been hospitalized for over 25 days, and their average age stood at 74-75.
The virulent stain of bacteria is resistant to all kinds of antibiotics, and has already spread in many hospitals across Israel.
Health Minister Yacov Ben Yizri on Wednesday rejected accusations that his ministry had underestimated the scope of the outbreak, saying the case was kept a secret to prevent mass panic.
LINK
ABC: Tracking Wounded Vets Cost Too Much
By Paul Kiel - March 7, 2007, 5:24 PM
TPM alum Justin Rood reports:
A proposal to keep seriously wounded vets from falling through the cracks of the bureaucracy was shelved in 2005 when Jim Nicholson took over as the secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, according to the former VA employee who was responsible for tracking war casualties.
As a result, seriously wounded veterans continued to face long delays for health care and benefit payments after being discharged from the military, says former VA program manager Paul Sullivan....
Sullivan said he was told the cost of the system -- less than $1 million to build and requiring a handful of staff to maintain -- was prohibitive.
$1 million.
LINK
toniD said...
It's not Nobody, just a troll thinking his being smug.
Nobody hasn't posted here or at the old blog for awhile.
So quit your acts.
And just because I know you don't like it...I'm going to cut and paste some more.
March 7, 2007 4:04 PM
It's probably not Nobody but the way Sam's blogs have been set up there is no way of knowing if it is him or not. It seems that there has been several long time past regulars that haven't posted in a very long time.
Unfortuately a number of imposters have impersonated them using a little bit of their old posting style. The best thing to do is to ignore them when someone is not who you think it is.
Ignore is your friend. :)
Even if you despise American Idol with every fibre of your existence...you should tune into Melinda Dolittle's performance just to hear her incredible, mind blowing voice. To say that girl has great pipes is the understatement of the year.
I bet that it is Nobody on half of his posted posts.
He never could stay away from here for more than a few days because of his internet addiction.
SOVIET-ERA COMPOUND IN POLAND WAS SITE OF SECRET CIA DETENTION, INTERROGATION; MI6 EXPOSES DEAL
Red said...
I bet that it is Nobody on half of his posted posts.
He never could stay away from here for more than a few days because of his internet addiction.
March 7, 2007 4:20 PM
You'll never know will you?
The growing scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has shocked the conscience of this nation. But the national crisis in military and veterans' health care only begins at Walter Reed.
All across this country, far too many of our national heroes are faced with similar nightmarish treatment: filthy living quarters, impenetrable bureaucracy and substandard care. And Veterans Affairs has a backlog of 400,000 unprocessed benefit claims.
Despite all this, President Bush's most recent budget proposal calls for serious cuts to veterans' health care in the years ahead – just as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are causing skyrocketing demand.
We cannot wait until the next election to address this national disgrace. So today, I've launched an urgent petition to Congress, calling on them to do whatever it takes to guarantee the quality care that every single veteran and service member deserves.
Congress is holding hearings on this issue this week and they're carefully gauging the public reaction. It's absolutely critical that we show Congress massive grassroots support for real, system-wide change – right now. Will you add your name today?
http://johnedwards.com/r/6857/282501
And just because I know you don't like it...I'm going to cut and paste some more.
March 7, 2007 4:04 PM
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On the contrary, I find you wasting your time to be rather amusing. The more crap you haul in here the funnier it gets.
I don't see how you have any choice. Posting nonsense is all you have. Reality isn't on your side.
Since the taxpayers are the ones that paid for the Scooter trial, and there appears a building consensus that a Pardon will be coming down the pike, thus providing a true miscarriage of justice, how can we truly Punish Scooter? Can the Congress pass a law that would make anyone Pardoned by a departing President responsible for the entire cost of the court/criminal proceedings against them?? That would be some justice!
Hi toniD, Sunny Jim, everyone ...
How are you all doing?
Went to the Uneven Bar last night to find out more about the blog business cause like Svetlana I don't know what is going on.
So my question: What is going on with the MRR blog? Any chance its coming back? Any news from Sam I may have missed?
Or Is this it now? This google thingy blog-a-like wannabe?
greetings from the High Bar ;-)
bridge
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Empire Roller Rink Closing Its Doors
These are Sam's word from an email he sent me:
keep listening and the blog shall return!
Gasoline again
flirts with $3 mark
Gasoline prices have jumped above $3 a gallon in some parts of California and Hawaii, and may hit that level other parts of the country when the busy summer driving season approaches.
LINK
Some coins lack
'In God We Trust'
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_fe_st/godless_dollars;_ylt=AgMxAhuO0s7zeJlsFmIF5WADW7oF
The blog is gone. Not this one, the other one. Only thing left is find out is when Sam will be gone as well.
Bomber Kills 30; 3 Soldiers Die in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide attacker blew himself up in a cafe northeast of the capital Wednesday, killing 30 people as a wave of violence left 90 Iraqis dead throughout the country. The bloodshed persisted as Iraqi security forces struggled to protect more than 1 million Shiite pilgrims.
LINK
Lest we forget!
Sam's on Countdown!!
Only 684 days, 15 hours and 40 more minutes left for the "presidency" of George W. Boob!
http://www.contortionhomepage.com/meribeth/V351t.jpg
rightwingers Libby defense
why Libby should be pardoned immediately .... why his perjury is not like Bill Clinton's perjury, the worst crime in US history ... no underlying crime .... yaddayadda
thanks tonid
that comment reminds me of "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche"
lost my post three times ... ok time is money ;-)
byebye
toniD said...
Gasoline again
March 7, 2007 5:09 PM
They charge what they want.
Old Borough Of Brooklyn Is The New Boulevard Of Brokers' Dreams
Brooklyn home prices jump 16%, beat U.S. trend
Foreclosure filings soar in Brooklyn, Queens
Meat me in St. Louis!
Red,
Ned ain't dead@
Shot in head!
Filled with lead!
Confined to bed!
In need of meds!
Needs fed!
Fred
SAM on COUNTDOWN just now
had to come back to say
it Was good to see SAM on TV again :)
he spoke well - right to the point, he looked fab, was smartly dressed - so whats not to like? New glasses, too? Liked them a lot.
And lots of kudos for getting rid of the facial hair, SAM! The majority of pundits can only dream they had your head of hair.
Keep up the good work, SAM, and keep looking good, too ;-)
Large, Undisclosed Contributions to Presidential Libraries Create Potential for Corruption
In testimony on Capitol Hill, the director of the Center for Responsive Politics urges Congress to shine light on the financing of public-private complexes that honor presidents.
"The potential (for corruption) may be far greater than in the campaign finance system," Krumholz told the committee, chaired by California Democrat Henry Waxman. Libraries can accept multi-million-dollar donations and gifts from corporations and foreign governments. Political campaigns cannot accept those types of contributions.
Hi bridge!
:)
m the a-c said...
Anonymous said...
Sam...Or...Somebody at Air America
YOUR WEB STREAMING KEEPS SHUTTING OFF
YOU SHOULD FIX THIS
__________
Yeah. This network is almost three years old, yet it hasn't mastered the internet[s].
March 7, 2007 11:51 AM
Yeah. This commenter is nearing 30 years old, yet he hasn't mastered people skills.
Wow. Legion and Gare are still hanging around.
I'm starting to feel bad for you guys.
Incidentally, I love how all the wingnuts are trying to spin Libby's conviction as a win for them.
I'll give 'em this much: if they can't find the silver lining, they'll invent it.
Hey, #, (if you read this)!
I made it into top comments at kos!
Woo hoo!
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Hi Alice.
I can't access singingfish
anymore. The site requires
an updated browser that's
incompatible with my outdated
operating system. :(
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
How are the cats? :)
Singingfish is now AOL Video main page and search engine. It's not as cool as the original. I've switched to dogpile.
bbl
Hi WFC, & NC... :)
Cats are good...I'm watching Dr Phil repeat now..it's a woman with 200 cats...a rescuer...her neighbors are doing to her what the inhumane society is doing to sonora cat rescue...lying & even killing her cats...lying to 'authorities'...etc...
maybe you'll find something fun here..?
While Sam is off the air (atleast temporarily tonight...hee hee) and before me and Stephen and Mark Green negotiate my new salary...
could somebody go in Seder's studio and take some measurements for me???
I like http://www.zoeken.nl/?sttname=mp3&query= cuz it goes right to the mp3 - I wish other places did that...
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see."
"I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes" replies Watson.
"And what do you deduce from that?"
Watson ponders for a minute.
"Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?"
Holmes is silent for a moment. "Watson, you idiot!" he says. "Someone has stolen our tent!"
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Thanks.
Looked at the German site
earlier.
Posted some good stuff for a while..
This blog is kind of
difficult to deal with.
That's supposed to be the second funniest joke as decided by a scientist...the winning one was less funny, I thought.
--This blog is kind of
difficult to deal with.--
Yeah, I guess..but so is finding a human head on your lap, or a baby in a dumpster in Brooklyn...sooooo.....
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
'Vinny Gorgeous' offers to take lie detector test
In a bid to remove the threat of a death penalty, lawyers for reputed Bonanno crime captain Vincent Basciano are pushing to have federal officials consider new evidence -- including the results of a lie detector test -- to show that Basciano wasn't behind an alleged plot to kill a prosecutor and a judge.
As part of their strategy, defense attorneys have secured an order from Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis to allow a polygraph test of Basciano in jail. Known as "Vinny Gorgeous," Basciano, 46, is in solitary confinement in Manhattan under strict security measures awaiting a re-trial of his 2006 racketeering case.
We think it is very important," defense attorney James Kousouros of Kew Gardens said Tuesday of the test.
The attorneys said they also have an affidavit from a jailhouse informant who claims it was Basciano's old mob mentor, former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino, who earlier came up with the idea to kill the prosecutor. Massino is a cooperating witness following his 2004 racketeering conviction.
Ephraim Savitt of Manhattan, another Basciano defense attorney, said he disclosed the polygraph order and the allegations about Massino last week to a special Department of Justice committee that handles death penalty matters.
The committee, known as the Capital Crimes Unit, reviews decisions by local federal prosecutors on capital cases. Basciano is eligible for the death penalty in a separate 2005 racketeering indictment that accuses him of orchestrating the murder of mob associate Randolph Pizzolo.
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"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Female inmate hangs self at Bedford Hills
http://www.starttherevolution.org/
Our Mission is to help people, including ourselves, to understand the truth about the world we live in.
We will do this by reading, watching, talking, thinking, writing and experiencing everything that we can to ensure that the information given on these pages is as honest and factual as possible (although I am sure that there will still be the odd "leap of sarcasm" here and there!)
Our Mission is to expose the lies and corruption that are prevalent in governments and secret governments, which eat away at democracy, truth and justice rather than doing what they are supposed to do and protecting them.
We will do this by providing the information required to see and understand the lies behind the media spin that is put on almost every story in almost every publication by simply referring to the researchable facts and presenting the common sense "gut reaction".
Our Mission is to offer suggestions and advice on ways that everybody can get involved in the fight to regain our independence, our choice and our freedoms.
We will do this by organising campaigns of civil disobedience that would place the government in a position of having to lock up so many people that it would be impossible for them to do so. It will also gradually erode their power leaving them with a simple choice...
Either you are with the citizens...Or you are against us!
The very design of human beings ensures that we cannot and will not accept the repression, enslavement and imprisonment that "they" wish to thrust upon us. That is why they use these things when you have broken their laws...Because they are a punishment. To do this to an entire society innocent or guilty, rich or poor, white or black, is to cage the most beautiful creature on the planet and that is simply wrong.
Ultimately, we must destroy, rebuild and recreate the entire structure of government and society. Exactly what this new structure will be nobody really knows but with the experience that we have as a race it will be easier to recognise the mistakes of the past and try harder to not repeat them.
No system of government is perfect and many would say that democracy is the "least bad" option from a list of bad choices. We believe that the only thing at fault here is the list itself.
It is time to rewrite the list...It is time to rewrite the future by understanding the past and present...It is time to stand up and be counted like so many others are doing...
It is time to Start The Revolution :: Because Life Should Be Better!
Blogging here is like listening for radio signals from other galaxies.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Report: City Homeless Rate Hits Modern-Day High
Second Teen Arrested In Union Square Stabbing
Water Main Break Turns Queens Neighborhood Into Icy Mess
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
After train trip, murder suspect to be arraigned
Amtrak's Silver Meteor out of Charleston, S.C., left the station at 8:45 last night with the usual complement of travelers hoping to catch some shuteye during the all-night ride to Penn Station in Manhattan.
What they didn't know was that they were sharing their train with a suspected cold-blooded killer.
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“To all the hipsters, hustlers and fly cats tipping along the Stroll. [Keep scuffling]
To all the cons in all the houses of many slammers, wrastling with chinches. [Short time, boys.]
To all the junkies and lushheads in two-bit scratchpads, and the flophouse grads in morgue iceboxes. >[R.I.P.]
To the sweettalkers, the gumbeaters, the highjivers, out of the gallion for good and never going to take it low again. [You got to make it, daddy.]
To Bessie Smith, Jimmy Noone, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Zutty Singleton, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier. [Grab a taste of millennium, gate.]”
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Ok, I'm out :
Why won't Sam discuss 9.11 Truth?
"Why won't Sam discuss 9.11 Truth?"
Because he is an agent of the Bavarian Illuminati. Like Chomsky.
Of course.
"Blogging here is like listening for radio signals from other galaxies."
The aliens are forcing you to blog here.
"NEWS CONSUMER" said...
Nice riff mezz.
Ok, this time I'm really out. :)
Two old guys were sitting at a table at the mall, having their daily morning coffee.
One guy says...I was up all night, worrying about the god dam Bavarian Illuminati!
The other guys says...I know what ya mean...I didn't get a minute's sleep because I couldn't stop thinking about that frigging Trilateral Commission!
Just then their really old buddy showed up and said...
I'm voting for Stassen!
here's a short-sharp sherlock holmes joke:
sherlock comes home with a guy for sex
he spreads the guys cheeks & squeezes some lemon juice on it
watson asks him "what on earth are you doing holmes"
"lemon-entry , my dear watson... lemon-entry"
Own Blanket:
A guy's going on a business trip and he has to take his secretary with him, and she's really crazy about him.
The first night on the Amtrak, she's in the top bunk and he's in the bottom bunk.
She says, "Mr. Forsythe! Mr. Forsythe! I'm chilly! I think I need a blanket!"
He says, "Miss Schmitt, how'd you like to pretend you're *Mrs.* Forsythe for a little while?
She says, "Oh, I'd like that."
He says, "Then get your own damn blanket."
hee
don't go news
i'm having visions again...
this is your demise
His Ashes:
A guy goes to a girl's house for the first time, and she shows him into the living room.
She excuses herself to go to the kitchen to make them a few drinks, and as he's standing there alone, he notices a cute little vase on the mantel.
He picks it up, and as he's looking at it, she walks back in. He says "What's this?" She says, "Oh, my father's ashes are in there."
He goes, "Jeez...oooh....I..." She says, "Yeah, he's too lazy to go to the kitchen to get an ashtray."
I am still happnin'!!!
Fat Slob:
A guy goes in to see a psychiatrist. He says, "Doc, I can't seem to make any friends. Can you help me, you fat slob?"
It's Christmas Eve. Kelly walks into a bar and orders beer and a shot of whiskey. The bartender gives him a beer and a shot of whiskey. Kelly drinks his beer and pours the shot of whiskey into his shirt pocket.
Kelly orders another beer and another shot of whiskey. Kelly drinks the beer and pours the shot of whiskey into his pocket.
The bartender says, "Look, Mac, it's Christmas Eve, and I know we're both depressed, and I certainly don't mean to bug you, but my curiosity is killing me. Why do you keep pouring the shots in your pocket?"
Kelly says, "It's none of your damn business! And if you be givin' me a hard time, I'll be breakin yer face!" A mouse pops out of Kelly's shirt pocket and says, "And that goes for your stupid cat , too!"
A doctor tells his patient..Mrs. Jones, you have to stop thinking that you are a chicken.
Mrs. Jones says...I can't doctor, I need the eggs.
The doctor says..no Mrs. Jones, your cholesterol is much too high. Beginning tomorrow, I want you to think that you are an asparagus patch.
Mrs. Jones says..but how am I to get to work?
//I need the eggs//
LOL
umm excuse me,
have any of you shriners seen the MRR blog?
i left it tied to the bannister and when i came back there were all these funny little cars parked there and it was gone.
nice hat's by the way...
Comment deleted @ 10:01 PM
was me, and it sucked and it said...
//cranky the skanky
i saved your seat
which was really neat of me//
(i might have to delete this post too)
Is he having a laugh?
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!
Non posso pensare perchè siete così ostili a me. Credo che desideriate darmi un bacio realmente grande.
//"The fez lez."//
LMAO!
A madam decides to retire & get married. Her main requirement in a husband is that he be a virgin.
She meets an Australian whom she is convinced is a virgin & marries him.
On their honeymoon she says "I'm going to the bathroom & get ready. You get things ready out here."
When she comes out of the bathroom, he has pushed all the furniture out in the hall.
"Why did you do that?" she asked.
"Well love, I figured if women were anything like kangaroos we'd need all the room we can get"...
s.j.
see what i thought of dada's jokes
and that goes for cranks last shriner joke
did e tell ya to "fark arf"?
when will the next
//The page cannot be displayed//
be displayed
(to my dismay)
LMAO!
to spaghetti's joke
s.j.
IF! you were a man, a real man, you'd delete your joke @ 10:37 PM and redeem your standing in the shriner joke community
just kidding...
"but many a truth is told in jest"
: )
be a man!! (s.j.)
a mighty salt-n-pepper shaker shriner man
and commit joke hari-kari...
relegate that sucker to the trash can of history, sir
(and keep america beautiful)
i can't hear you!
i've got a bannanas in my ears.
ZZZZZZZzzzzrrf rff rrf...honk!
Huh?
oh. i was dreamin.
night gang, mornin snorky.
teel the ogg a bad joke for me!
Yea, life's a big fuckin joke, while veteran's without arms, and other critical maladies, can't find anybody thinking on some serious level to find the care they need. There are mega millions, somewhere, but we can't find one that would help. And, we've got unemployed comedians...life's a big fuckin joke.
SEDER, this backup blog is forcing me to hang out at kos more and more.
Top comments today, TU status next.
What have you done for me lately?
(Lead your people out of the wilderness)
Limbaughs comments (poking the bear) were sickening. I wanted to go to his his website and post a comment (no such option, surprise, surprise), and I started to read his site. Oh my God! I had no clue just what a wing-nut this guy is. His argument re Plame and Wilson ("It's the criminalization of Conservative politics") boils down to a call to blindly follow GOP authoritarism. It's basic fascism. Not living in the US, I just thought Rush was blithering blow-hard, but it's much worse.
Ray McGovern
Why Cheney Lost It When Joe Wilson Spoke Out
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030707R.shtml
"Testimony at the Libby trial showed a vice president obsessed with retaliating against former ambassador Joseph Wilson for writing, in the New York Times op-ed section on July 6, 2003, that intelligence had been 'twisted' to justify attacking Iraq. How to explain why the normally stoic, phlegmatic Cheney went off the deep end?" asks Ray McGovern.
Tom Engelhardt
Hostages to Policy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030707D.shtml
Tom Engelhardt reviews what we know about waste and war in Iraq.
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030607K.shtml
"Natural law states that people possess the God-given or natural right to govern themselves, as opposed to the earlier concept of divine justification of a king or monarch. Social contract theory is the idea that people in a civilized society consent to be governed by a set of standards and elect representatives in order to protect these natural rights. Most importantly, as stated in the Declaration of Independence, '...that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...'"
Today is International Women's Day.
When governments and women's rights campaigners mark International Women's Day today, spare a thought for the plight of women in impoverished developing countries where campaigners are taking huge personal risks to work for equality and freedom. Across Guatemala, women will be demonstrating to demand that their government takes action to halt the slaughter of women which has reached such levels that it has been named a "femicide."
The statistics are stark: everywhere you look in the developing world, women's rights are under threat, be it from sex trafficking, denial of education or job discrimination.
Figures compiled by the British government, development agencies and human rights groups resemble a roll call of shame:
* Two-thirds of the world's 800 million illiterate adults are women as girls are not seen as worth the investment, or are busy collecting water or firewood or doing other domestic chores.
* Two million girls aged from five to 15 join the commercial sex market every year.
* Domestic violence kills and injures more people in the developing world than war, cancer or traffic accidents.
* Seventy per cent of the world's poorest people are women.
* Violence against women causes more deaths and disabilities among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.
* Women produce half the world's food, but own less than two per cent of the land.
* Of the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty, 70 per cent are women.
* Almost a third of the world's women are homeless or live in inadequate housing.
* Half of all murdered women are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.
* Every minute a woman dies as a result of pregnancy complications.
* Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours, yet earn only a tenth of its income.
* One woman in three will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
* 43 million girls are not able to go to school.
* Last year, one million HIV-positive women died of AIDS-related illnesses because they could not get the drugs they needed.
* Human Rights Watch, in reports on 15 countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Togo and South Africa, has identified violence against schoolgirls, child domestic workers and those in conflict with the law as on the rise.
* Women across the developing world are the victims of systematic abuse.
LINK
The real player web stream stopped again...
...you really gotta fix that...
I guess it's back to commercial packed wwrl...
http://www.wwrl1600.com/live_stream.asp
Notes from the latin side of da americas:
Bwaynus Nochez Libruls!
I'm off on my Latin American good will tour to make good visits with all my brown latino friends.
We are going to have such a good time with all the latins.
Click on me for the newser coverage.
Think Positive,
George
Abu Gitmo Gonzales,..
http://www.earthstation1.com/WBCartoonFiles/WB_Wavs/porky.wav
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